DETROIT (AP) - Grace Lee Boggs, a longtime activist who was part of the labor, civil rights, black power, women's rights and environmental justice movements, died Monday at her Detroit home. She was 100.
Boggs and late husband James Boggs were involved in advocacy for decades. She helped organize a ...
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"If you had the opportunity to meet with him, what would you say?"
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America has a well-known love affair with the open road — and it's a good thing, because we're also known for spending a lot of time in our cars. According to DOT statistics, the average driver logs 13,476 miles per year (that's 37 miles a day) and spends 34 hours a year sitting in traffic, a figure that has more than doubled in the last 30 years. So if our cars are… Read More
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Speaker John A. Boehner set an Oct. 29 date for the full House to vote on his replacement, giving Republicans three weeks to get their troops in line and rally around Rep. Kevin McCarthy or whoever else emerges from this week's internal GOP vote.
But the votes for the rest ...
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"My success in Hell is assured."
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Pity the American voter. Angry, frustrated and desperate, in successive elections he delivers more Republican soldiers to Congress, all in the spirit of Dr. Johnson's famous description of a second marriage as "the triumph of hope over experience." All that changes in Washington is the size of the nothingburgers.
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"Liberal Americans who want all kinds of regulations are being irrational."
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Bill Clinton's administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing, but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intelligence for fear it would lead to an outcry for reprisal, according to documents and ...
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"But we haven't gotten much further than that."
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We are currently witnessing a shift in business models, as many consumer tech companies move from transactional models in favor of subscription-based ones. YouTube is launching an ad-free, subscription-based service. Apple recently launched a streaming music service for $10/month. Microsoft just bundled its popular consumer products into a $199/month offering as cloud services have become a… Read More 
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California's wrenching yearlong legislative debate over the right to die culminated Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown signing into law a bill making California the fifth state to permit physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
As a Democrat and former Catholic seminarian, Mr. Brown was caught between two opposing sides of ...
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"I have no problem with people that are responsible gun owners."
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Pinterest announced this morning it's expanding the reach of its "Buyable Pins" – meaning those pins that allow you to make purchases directly on Pinterest – to several more e-commerce platforms, including Bigcommerce, Magento, and IBM Commerce. The company previously supported Buyable Pins with Shopify and Demandware, when the feature first launched earlier… Read More 
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denounced the Congress' Benghazi committee, seizing on controversial remarks by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that she said proved the panel was political hit job aimed solely at her.
Mrs. Clinton, who is scheduled to testify before the committee later this ...
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"We wail and scream and cry and pray."
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"Please don't let this horrible act of insanity become about who should or shouldn't have a gun."
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Earlier this year, Adobe launched Adobe Stock, a new stock imagery service based on its acquisition of Fotolia. With today's major update to its suite of Creative Cloud apps and services, the company is also updating Adobe Stock with support for video content. This move doesn't come as a major surprise given that the company has always said it wanted to expand the Adobe Stock… Read More 
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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a 9-point lead over former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the early state of New Hampshire, according to a new poll that shows Mrs. Clinton falling further behind should Vice President Joseph R. Biden enter the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential ...
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"It's not only going to affect the next four years but the next 34 years."
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YouNow, a four-year-old, New York-based social network that connects audiences and broadcasters in real time, has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by earlier backers Venrock and investor Oren Zeev, with participation from Comcast Ventures. The company has now collected $30 million altogether from investors, including Union Square Ventures, which led its Series A round in 2013. VCs… Read More 
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The National Science Foundation is spending nearly a half a million dollars to create robots that can tell stories to preschoolers.
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"The system works as good as it can at this point."
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"Our customers shouldn't be treated like they're doing something wrong."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jeb Bush follows Donald Trump on Twitter but that's a one-way street: Trump mainly follows people with a connection to himself. Ted Cruz's follow list is a big tea party, though he keeps an eye on President Barack Obama, too.
Marco Rubio seems open to following ...
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There's a rather large spoiler for The Martian below, but it's the one that Neil deGrasse Tyson doled out last night to his 4.3 million followers so there's a chance you've already seen it. Proceed at your own risk, etc. For being a brilliant science guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson can be kind of a dick: No, dude. ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - One-time college placekicker Jason Chaffetz wants to boot Republican House leaders off their path to promotions.
Chaffetz declared Sunday that he's running to replace retiring House Speaker John Boehner, even though Boehner has chosen Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy as his successor, and upend the would-be GOP leadership ...
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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - After a suburban district attorney in New York barred her prosecutors from keeping handguns, even at home, her office said the goal was safety. But the now-changed restriction has touched off debate about whether prosecutors should be packing heat.
The Nassau County DA's office loosened the ...
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He was arrested for allegedly entering North Korea illegally across the Chinese border.
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"If you are in that area, you are encouraged to stay at home and watch the news as the chaos unfolds."
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